For the first time in 1,022 days, the Northwestern State football team is in the win column! In front of their win-starved fans at Turpin Stadium, the Demons beat Alcorn State, 20-10, to snap a 20-game losing streak. After the game, a very relieved second-year head coach Blaine McCorkle said it feels good to finally get a win in Natchitoches.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a team and a campus and a city as in need of a win as this football team, this university in Natchitoches, did. It just allows everybody to kind of take a sigh of relief and lets people know that this football program that this city and this campus love so much is still alive and well, and we’re gonna be A-okay,” McCorkle said.
McCorkle said the thrill of victory is so much better than the agony of defeat.
“I told the guys in the locker room after the game that when we woke up this morning, we had the longest lose streak in the country. Saturday night, when all the games are over with, we’ll have a longer winning streak than half the teams in the country,” McCorkle said.
The Demons, however, should savor the moment while they can. Next Saturday, they go into Big Ten Country to take on Minnesota, who knocked off Buffalo Thursday night, 23-10.
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